No record exists of this chap in CWG registers, so it may be that he was a lucky guy that day. I'd be grateful for help or direction in tracing him (through Old Comrades/RBL sources). Discretion will be observed of course.

No record exists of this chap in CWG registers, so it may be that he was a lucky guy that day. I'd be grateful for help or direction in tracing him (through Old Comrades/RBL sources). Discretion will be observed of course.

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Staaken,

It's a shame he has a common name, otherwise I could run it through 192.com. The only thing I can suggest is that you contact the Daily Mail which has a regular Saturday feature on "missing persons" especially military. You might not find WA Smith but you might find his colleagues.

Alternatively, you could contact the MOD at Hayes (see the Veterans' site) and send the notebook to them for filing with his service record - just in case someone asks for it in the future.